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  • noun Plural form of honu.

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Examples

  • Honus Wagner came through in the clutch for the School Sisters of Notre Dame.honus. jpgA rare baseball card that had been bequeathed to the order of Roman Catholic nuns in Baltimore has sold at auction for $262,900, with the nuns receiving $220,000 from the sale after subtracting the 19.5 percent buyer's premium.

    Md. nuns bag $220K for dog-eared baseball card Cindy Boren 2010

  • One thing that does concern me is that we are constantly addressing what we are not intending to do if we were ever to lead the country, in particular as regards our foreign policy - the honus is more on what we aren't willing to do.

    Be Afraid, Very Afraid (Of Govt. And The Media) Patrick Vessey 2008

  • An education is indeed the way to employment and the possibly to improve oneself through attainment in the future but as this new movement in education demonstrates the honus on education is to get its "customers" a "piece of paper", rather than the necessary life skills and/or knowledge engendered by the A-level or one of the existing tried and tested vocational systems of education (i.e. apprenticeships).

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007

  • If she was only joking here in order to communicate her particular point of view, I think the honus is on her now to explain to the families of those 21 victims how exactly this particular "joke" should sound funny to them in their time of grief.

    News - chicagotribune.com 2011

  • With one shot on goal, and a lineup that screams talent, but a formation that screams fear, the honus of blame can only be placed on

    Soccer Blogs - latest posts 2009

  • The honus is on you to prove that he plagiarized those passages.

    VQR 2009

  • I suppose the honus is on me to research some other modern "thinkers" who sympathize with ID but use ID to or think that ID does rebut evolution.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • With one shot on goal, and a lineup that screams talent, but a formation that screams fear, the honus of blame can only be placed on

    Soccer Blogs - latest posts 2009

  • In the end Hitler was dangerous because the jews gained so much power in Germany and Europe …. that Hitler broke through to the truth that the average people knew, then the people looked at that truth and once they stopped believing the jews … Hitler no longer had to prove himself factual … the honus was on the jews.

    Dissident Voice 2009

  • £he had much better have agreed with Horace, and have ranked that fimile under the head of Aliquando honus dormitat Homerus, -

    The Works of Laurence Sterne 1795

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